Individual differences in common factors of emotional traits and executive functions predict functional connectivity of the amygdala

Rohr, Christiane S.; Dreyer, Felix R.; Aderka, Idan M.; Margulies, Daniel S.; Frisch, Stefan; Villringer, Arno; Okon‐Singer, Hadas

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.049

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“…Though few studies have assessed attention-related trait dimensions across both TD children and children with NDDs, colleagues (2014, 2016) Goldfarb, et al, 2016;Rohr, et al, 2015;Rohr, et al, 2013;Rohr, et al, 2016;Vossel, et al, 2016) and clinical groups (Nebel, et al, 2015;van Dongen, et al, 2015;. The use of dimensional approaches can also allow for more statistical power in studies on ADHD and ASD, which are chronically underpowered due to heterogeneity in the populations studied (Fair, et al, 2012;Nigg, 2005;Sonuga-Barke, 2002;Sonuga-Barke, et al, 2008) and the challenge of recruiting and successfully collecting neuroimaging data from these groups.…”

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Girls’ attentive traits associate with cerebellar to dorsal attention and default mode network connectivity

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Dimond

Schuetze

et al. 2018

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Attention traits are a cornerstone to the healthy development of children's performance in the classroom, their interactions with peers, and in predicting future success and problems. The cerebellum is increasingly appreciated as a region involved in complex cognition and behavior, and moreover makes important connections to key brain networks known to support attention: the dorsal attention and default mode networks (DAN; DMN). The cerebellum has also been implicated in childhood disorders affecting attention, namely autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), suggesting that attention networks extending to the cerebellum may be important to consider in relation to attentive traits. Yet, direct investigations into the association between cerebellar FC and attentive traits are lacking. Therefore, in this study we examined attentive traits, assessed using parent reports of ADHD and ASD symptoms, in a community sample of 52 girls aged 4-7 years, i.e. around the time of school entry, and their association with cerebellar connections with the DAN and DMN.We found that cortico-cerebellar functional connectivity (FC) jointly and differentially correlated with attentive traits, through a combination of weaker and stronger FC across anterior and posterior DAN and DMN nodes. These findings suggest that corticocerebellar integration may play an important role in the manifestation of attentive traits.

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Girls’ attentive traits associate with cerebellar to dorsal attention and default mode network connectivity

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“…On the basis of neuroimaging literature, we hypothesized that extraversion would predict the process that the visual cortex affects the amygdala, which may partly explain the described bias towards social engagement 29 30 . Neuroticism would predict the interactions between the amygdala and the PFC and PCu regions, which may modulate the cognitive-emotional process in neurotic individuals 31 32 .…”

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Extraversion and neuroticism related to the resting-state effective connectivity of amygdala

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Wang

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The amygdala plays a key role in emotion processing. Its functional connectivity with other brain regions has been extensively demonstrated to be associated with extraversion and neuroticism. However, how the amygdala affects other regions and is affected by others within these connectivity patterns associated with extraversion and neuroticism remains unclear. To address this issue, we investigated the effective connectivity of the amygdala using Granger causality analysis on the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data of 70 participants. Results showed that extraversion was positively correlated with the influence from the right inferior occipital gyrus (IOG) to the left amygdala, and from the bilateral IOG to the right amygdala; such result may represent the neural correlates of social interactions in extraverts. Conversely, neuroticism was associated with an increased influence from right amygdala to right middle frontal gyrus and a decreased influence from right precuneus to right amygdala. This influence might affect the modulations of cognitive regulation function and self-referential processes in neurotic individuals. These findings highlight the importance of the causal influences of amygdala in explaining the individual differences in extraversion and neuroticism, and offer further insights into the specific neural networks underlying personality.

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“…Between 47 to 54 of the fMRI task data sets could be analyzed (see Table 6). The dropout rates are in a range reported by other studies using neuroimaging batteries with emotional tasks in healthy normal subjects (e.g., Roalf et al, 2014;Rohr et al, 2015). Given the long duration of our procedures and the stressful nature of several of the tasks, it is however conceivable that dropout rates might be higher in older subjects or in subjects selected for particular stress-related vulnerabilities.…”

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A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies

Kampa

Schick

Yuen

et al. 2018

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Resilience is the maintenance or rapid recovery of mental health during and after stressor exposure. It is becoming increasingly clear that resilience results from a complex and dynamic process of adaptation to stressors involving the biological, psychological and social levels. Positive appraisal style theory of resilience (PASTOR) claims that the common final pathway to maintained mental health lies in the non-negative (non-catastrophizing, nonpessimistic) appraisal of potential stressors, permitting the organism to fine-tune stress responses to optimal levels, thus avoiding unnecessary stress, inefficient deployment of resources and concomitant deleterious allostatic load effects. Successful adaptation consists in developing or strengthening a positive appraisal style. Another key element of PASTOR is that a positive appraisal style is strongly determined by the efficacy and efficiency of the neural and cognitive processes that underlie positive stressor appraisal. We here present a combined behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) battery designed to assess such processes repeatedly in longitudinal settings. The battery includes tests of stress reactivity and recovery, reward sensitivity, safety learning and memory in the context of fear conditioning and extinction, volitional situation-focused reappraisal, volitional self-focused reappraisal, and emotional interference inhibition, along with structural MRI and resting-state MRI scans. A detailed description of the battery methods is provided. The feasibility of the battery was successfully tested in N=55 healthy subjects; group results of the individual tasks largely replicate existing literature.

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Individual differences in common factors of emotional traits and executive functions predict functional connectivity of the amygdala

Cited by 38 publications

References 97 publications

Girls’ attentive traits associate with cerebellar to dorsal attention and default mode network connectivity

Girls’ attentive traits associate with cerebellar to dorsal attention and default mode network connectivity

Extraversion and neuroticism related to the resting-state effective connectivity of amygdala

A Combined Behavioral and Neuroimaging Battery to Test Positive Appraisal Style Theory of Resilience in Longitudinal Studies

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